Crashes

Joanne Swenka was seriously injured in a crash that killed her passenger, Judy Hoover. After several surgeries, Swenka has returned home and is continuing to heal.

DES MOINES — Police arrested an Iowa man Thursday in the death of a 4-year-old boy who was killed when a car that was racing on a city street crossed into oncoming lanes and crashed into two vehicles.

The collisions happened along a four-lane thoroughfare in Des Moines, where police said a car and an SUV were racing.

One person was killed Wednesday morning in a crash outside Cedar Rapids, at the intersection of Highway 13 and Mount Vernon Road SE, according to a news release from the Linn County Sheriff’s Office.

The study took place between September of 2019 and July of 2021 at trauma centers in Iowa City, Iowa; Miami and Jacksonville, Florida; Charlotte, North Carolina; Baltimore; Worcester, Massachusetts; and Sacramento, California. Medical examiners at four of the sites also took part.

Tyler Rosenthal, 21, was driving a Honda CR-V west in the eastbound lanes of Highway 30, according to the crash report.

The driver of an SUV was killed in a head-on crash with a semi-trailer truck in Benton County Sunday evening

A 14-year-old boy from Manchester who was driving the four-wheeler lost control and the ATV went into the ditch, where it bottomed out and ejected all riders, the report said.

One person was killed in an ATV crash in Delaware County Wednesday, according to an Iowa State Patrol crash report.

The accident happened near the Monticello airport

Driver died at scene of Interstate 380 and Highway 30 crash

The trucker was completing a U-turn at 280th Street, blocking the southbound lane of Highway 1, according to the crash report.